Pushing Daisies

Pushing Daisies.

Pushing Daisies is a 2008 romantic comedy drama series.

Cast

Singing cast (regular)

• Ellen Greene - Vivian Charles
• Kristin Chenoweth - Olive Snook

Non-singing cast (regular)

• Lee Pace - Ned
• Anna Friel - Charlotte "Chuck" Charles
• Chi McBride - Emerson Cod
• Jim Dale - The Narrator
• Field Cate - Young Ned
• Swoosie Kurtz - Lily Charles
• Orbit/Orion - Digby

Non-singing cast (recurring)

• Sy Richardson - The Coroner
• Sammi Hanratty - Young Chuck
• Stephen Root - Dwight Dixon
• Jon Eric Price - Young Ned's Father
• David Arquette - Randy Mann
• Christine Adams - Simone Hundin
• Paul Reubens - Oscar Vibenius
• Raúl Esparza - Alfredo Aldarisio

Plot

Ned is a piemaker who has a gift that allows him to restore dead things to life, though if he does so for longer than a minute, something else must take their place, and a second touch will restore them to death. He solves crimes with private investigator Emerson Cod, and his childhood sweetheart Chuck, a murder victim who he resurrected and now can never, ever touch. Working with Ned is Olive Snook, a lovesick waitress who is ignorant of Ned's secret, and after striking up a friendship with her shut-in aunts, believes Chuck faked her death.

Musical numbers

Series 1

Dummy

• "Hopelessly Devoted to You" - Olive

Pidgeon

• "Birdhouse in Your Soul" - Vivian and Olive

Girth

• "The Old Grey Mare" - Olive

The Smell of Success

• "Morning Has Broken" - Vivian

Series 2

Comfort Food

• "Eternal Flame" - Olive

The Legend of Merle McQuoddy

• "Candle in the Water" - Olive and Barbershop Quartet

Window Dressed to Kill

• "Hello" - Olive